charlie
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:25 AM
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Salve the sting of food prices with the G8 menu |
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Feast your eyes and be contented, our intrepid leaders are well-nourished and ready to discuss their concern. Try not to think about our Fratboy slathering ketchup and hot sauce on the exquisite dishes, filching Cheetos from his pocket, and chawing dinner rolls ("Yo, Blair!") between courses. After discussing famine in Africa, the peckish politicians and five spouses took on four bite-sized amuse-bouche to tickle their palates. The price of staple foods may be soaring, but thankfully caviar and sea urchin are within the purchasing power of leaders and their taxpayers - the amuse-bouche featured corn stuffed with caviar, smoked salmon and sea urchin, hot onion tart and winter lily bulb.
Guests at the summit, which is costing £238m (Note: that's $469m at today's rate), were then able to pick items from a tray modelled on a fan and decorated with bamboo grasses, including diced fatty tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce, and pickled conger eel with soy sauce.
Hairy crab Kegani bisque-style soup was another treat in a meal prepared by the Michelin-starred chef Katsuhiro Nakamura, the grand chef at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Tokyo, alongside salt-grilled bighand thornyhead (a small, red Pacific fish) with a vinegary water pepper sauce.
They have told their people to tighten their belts for lean times ahead, but you feared for presidential and prime ministerial girdles after the chance to tuck into further dishes including milk-fed lamb, roasted lamb with cepes, and black truffle with emulsion sauce. Finally there was a "fantasy" dessert, a special cheese selection accompanied by lavender honey and caramelised nuts, while coffee came with candied fruits and vegetables.
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Earlier, the heads of state had restricted themselves to a light lunch of asparagus and truffle soup, crab and supreme of chicken served with nuts and beetroot foam, followed by a cheese selection, peach compote, milk ice-cream and coffee with petits fours.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/08/food.foodanddrink
The leaders tucked into truffle soup and crab as they discussed Zimbabwe and aid to Africa’s poorest people. The evening feast of 19 separate dishes included diced fatty flesh of tuna fish and milk-fed lamb with aromatic herbs. Tomorrow, after working up an appetite discussing soaring food prices, the leaders will enjoy a £200 dinner of giant crab, £50-a-kilogram langoustine and sweet clover ice cream, prepared by Michel Bras, a Michelin three-star French chef.
It is all in keeping with a summit that has cost a total of 60 billion yen (£283 million) (Note: $558m) - enough to have bought 100 million mosquito nets to save Africans from catching malaria - and that frequently seems at odds with the Japanese hosts’ professed theme of ecology and environmentalism.
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Andrew Mitchell, the Shadow International Development Secretary, said last night: "The G8 have made a bad start to their summit, with excessive cost and lavish consumption. Surely it is not unreasonable for each leader to give a guarantee that they will stand by their solemn pledges of three years ago at Gleneagles to help the world’s poor. All of us are watching, waiting and listening."
Dominic Nutt, of Save the Children, said: "It is deeply hypocritical they should be lavishing course after course on world leaders when there is a food crisis and millions cannot afford to eat."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4286365.ece
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:27 AM
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1. I wish more folks would see this. |
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And not just DUers.
Yes, I know they have to eat SOMETHING, but goddam...
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charlie
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:38 AM
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7. What's really flooring me |
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is the HALF BILLION DOLLAR price tag for the largely temporary accomodations (details in the second article) for this summit. Security is of course expensive, but that isn't where most of the bucks are going.
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Buzz Clik
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:29 AM
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2. They ate winter lily bulbs? That's barbaric! |
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:30 AM
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3. What? Deny our beloved Leaders some tidbits? You must be some sort of whack-job |
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like that other Whack Job, that Jesus guy........
I've heard that we indeed produce more than enough food to feed everyone, yet can't distribute it right, or more likely, most of us in the USA are eating for two.......
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:33 AM
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4. Geez, I don't even know what some of that stuff IS |
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bighand thornyhead?? Beetroot foam???? :wtf:
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:33 AM
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5. Some are more equal than others n/t |
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:38 AM
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6. Dust off the Guillotine. |
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Tue Jul-08-08 08:48 AM
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8. wait... they should do what they preach? |
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I assume that Rush and everyone else at FOX & beyond who attacked Gore will get right on this.
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Tue Jul-08-08 09:16 AM
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always flabbergasted but never surprised.
These people need to be sentenced to a life time of working for the starving in other countries and eating exactly when the populace they serve ear.
They are not stupid. They do not even care that we know this about them. They are untouchable.
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Tue Jul-08-08 09:27 AM
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10. I'd rather have a tuna sandwich or even a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich than that menu! |
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Most of those foods should be eaten ONLY if one is starving and there is no other alternative, except maybe for grubs.
:scared:
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Tue Jul-08-08 09:40 AM
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12. Yeah, there's a strange symmetry |
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between the dietary grotesqueries endured by the destitute and desired by the jaded rich, from eating termites because it's the only protein you can get, to paying top dollar for coffee beans eaten and excreted by a civet and flown from halfway around the globe.
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Tue Jul-08-08 09:30 AM
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11. It's "Iron Chef In Your Face"! |
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Watch as he makes foods that remind you that you're eating rice, beans, potatoes, and high-sodium canned goods...which are all you can afford nowadays.
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Tue Jul-08-08 09:47 AM
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13. "Holy Hairy Crab Kegani! Smirk." - Commander AWOL |
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Edited on Tue Jul-08-08 09:48 AM by SpiralHawk
"I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight. Not. Smirk." - Commander AWOL
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